Take office as Mayor of Taiz

Taiz, Yemen · 615,000 people · Heritage City

The Taiz City Council and the Taiz Water and Sanitation Local Corporation manage Yemen's third largest city from its highland setting at 1,400 metres in the Haraz mountains, overseeing rehabilitation of the historic Al-Qahira citadel and the traditional coffee trading souks of the old city, restoring water distribution networks, and rebuilding road and bridge infrastructure across a city known historically as Yemen's cultural and commercial heart.

The record Taiz keeps on the Board of Mayors is still unwritten. Take office and write its opening chapter.

Take the Oath of Office

The city

Landmark: Al-Qahira Citadel & Al-Ashrafiyya Mosque.

Taiz's municipal water engineers manage a severely stressed highland water supply system — the city relies on deep wells drawing from depleted aquifers in the Haraz mountains — operating a rationed pipe supply supplemented by water vendor networks, with the Taiz Water Corporation coordinating emergency leak repair programmes across a distribution network that reaches only a fraction of the city's population on any given day.
Taiz is historically the origin city of Yemeni coffee culture — the highland terraces surrounding the city produced the first commercially traded coffee in the world via the port of Mocha, and the municipality now manages heritage designation of the ancient coffee trading caravanserais in the old city souks alongside programmes to revive smallholder highland coffee cultivation as a sustainable local economy.

How a term works

Take office and each day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is judged on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, within the city's budget, and every term adds to the record Taiz keeps on the Board of Mayors. Mayors message and confer with one another, form councils, trade with neighbouring cities and send aid where it is needed. Cities rise together.

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